With Spring fully under way, with Winter releasing its grip and being replaced with delightful 70-degree temperatures, and with society’s desire to push through still damaging COVID-19, activities other than Zoom events, have increased. Find a way to include all of the increased buzz is the task. For example: •
Pieces: During World War II, Ronald Reagan served in the army’s motion picture unit as he narrated training films. The handsome, youthful. good-natured Ronald Reagan radiated the message that everything was going to be all right. At age 25 he was a Midwestern radio sportscaster. On a trip to California
Here is a good news story. We could use a few feel good stories. I am late to the game here, as you will see, but, worth the telling, and lessons to be learned. A year or more ago, I made friends with Rick Brooks of Princeton, Ill.. Only later
Random thoughts while contemplating the holidays allows the mind a wide range: • If society’s goal is to enjoy the Independence Day holiday in small family gatherings as a way to help emerge from the dreaded COVID-19, we should sacrifice a little more now by wearing masks, know distance is
Our country, our planet, is being tested in so many ways and now we need to decide: How do we fit into this picture. Will we take a stand for what we believe is right or will we just sit back and watch things happen? Martin Gould of Aventura, Fla.
By the time you read this column in The Voice, we’ll be stepping into a nice April, or a brisk October, depending on how the USPS is handling our mail deliveries. If Louis DeJoy is still running the postal system, it will most likely be the latter. We passed some
We should know the sites of our election polling places. We can expand on the unusually and timely large election turnout in the November 3, 2020 presidential election. Ordinarily community elections do not have a similar draw as the presidential elections. Cities, communities, towns, townships, and districts will hold elections
The New Year 1890 brought a harsh March Winter to New York City. The hoar frost on the tree limbs and branches made it look like a silver brush had painted over it all. The Irish had arrived to its tenements. There was little fresh air, or water. Cinders and
And to think I’ll never see it again on Mulberry Street. Is The Chas in a tizzy over the antics of the dizzy who are using their writer’s tools to turn us all into fools? You bet he is, just like nobody’s biz! He’s ready to bust a gut over
Education is important and comes under scrutiny, continually. Society’s focus is to return to full-time in-school building classes. It is easy for students who could be learning remotely to relax, not pay attention, and, even not attend, even though it would be hurtful to those students in the long run.
In the large cities in America and even in small towns, the Irish banded together for companionship and for recreation. Saloon-keepers formed social clubs which brought fellowship for the Irish. Soon they became cogs in the wheels of ward politics. The mines and factories had horrid working conditions, so unions
Likely it could be called housekeeping! Each week in The Voice is a little different, even if some readers may view the contents and elements in largely the same way. There are variations in what constitutes The Voice each week. The front page of this week’s edition proclaims, Volume 13
March 6, 2021Dear editor; Did you ever have a teacher who had an impact in your life in ways which truly matter? At K.D. Waldo Junior High in Aurora, I discovered the most stimulating seventh-grade classroom was taught by a commanding presence, the late Mr. Roy C. Everson Jr. of
The clock stood still. Its ancient hands slowly counting the minutes. The hours. The days. Timeless. All were dancing. The waltz held such a fascination similar to a new kitten, or a fiddle. Cascades of flowers were everywhere. The white roses in profusion along with the peonies, all pink. It
“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitles them,
Although COVID-19 has not caused the predicted baby boom, it instead has created a pet boom. With many individuals confined to more time at home they’re looking to adopt pets, so demand has led to an increase of pet-breeding. In an attempt to prompt empty shelters, rather than support the
We really can make our way through the COVID-19 maelstrom, in part, because there is no other way. We do what we have to do to move onward. Although there have been and are problems with the pandemic, hope springs eternal that our situations will become better. We can make
Third of four parts “In 2008, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced $306 million in grants to promote high-yield sustainable agriculture among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The Foundation’s plans included creation, through genetic manipulation, of high-production, drought-resistant dairy cows, and the development and proliferation of
Aurora University will present a virtual discussion of “Occupy till I Come: The Origins of Aurora University in Mendota, Illinois, 1893-1912” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 9. University president Rebecca L. Sherrick will lead the Zoom discussion with “Occupy” author Susan Palmer of Aurora, an Aurora College alumna, professor emerita
Aurora Central Dispatch received multiple calls at 6:58 a.m. Tuesday, March 2, from bystanders stating that smoke was coming from a house in the 200 block of West Downer Avenue. A Box Alarm Structure fire was dispatched that consisted of two engine companies, one truck company, two Battalion Chiefs, and
